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Letters: City Deserves Recognition

As a citizen of Fort Smith, I was watching Channel 5 news and the citizens are yet to be aware that it is funding another project at Chaffee Crossing. Why is that the citizens of Fort Smith is funding so many things at Chaffee Crossing but it is never referred as being a part of the city of Fort Smith? It is being referred to in the sense that it will become its own city as a subdivision at the expense of the citizens of Fort Smith.

So far, Fort Smith has paid for: roads, water lines, a fire department and in the future a high school, plus maybe an event center, but yet it is never referred to Chaffee Crossing as actually being part of the city of Fort Smith. The news people don’t say Chaffee Crossing at Fort Smith, just Chaffee Crossing.

So citizens of Fort Smith ask yourselves, why is so much of the taxpayers money being spent to advertise and update the properties at Chaffee Crossing? If is not actually a part of Fort Smith but the county when the Northside of Fort Smith is in need of being upgraded. If the citizens are not aware there will be exits from interstate 49 directly into Chaffee Crossing, so once again I say follow the monies being spent for “Chaffee Crossing.”